By IANS,
New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday asked the government to arrange safe passage for more than 100 Indians, who are trapped in Kyrgyzstan’s Osh and Jalalabad towns after ethnic riots erupted in the Central Asian republic.
“We are concerned about the situation in Kyrgyzstan. Many of our children are there. We want their safety and we want the government of India to arrange a safe passage for them,” BJP spokesman Rajiv Pratap Rudy told reporters here.
The external affairs ministry said in a statement that 15 students were stranded in Jalalabad and 99 students, a professor and a businessman in Osh.
Indian students trapped amid street violence in southern Kyrgyzstan are getting increasingly worried about their security.
According to media reports, ethnic violence in south Kyrgyzstan has claimed at least 117 lives and left over 1,000 injured.
Students complained that authorities have asked them to lock their homes from inside. Some said supply of electricity, water and cooking gas had been blocked.
Deadly riots swept through Osh and another southern city of Jalalabad Friday and Saturday, Kyrgyz news agency AKIpress reported Sunday.